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PLACES OF INTEREST
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VARKHED.
Varkhed Bk. (Pachora Taluka; 20°35' N, 75°25' E; p. 1,360), six miles east of Pachora, has also a railway station of the same name. It is one of the 12 Pachora villages which were handed over to the British by Sindia in 1821, restored to him again in 1835, and handed back in 1843. On the occasion of the last transfer the village made a remarkable resistance. The Rajput headman shut the gates of the fort, a common mud fortification cased with brick, seventy-five feet square and twenty-eight high, refused to surrender, and for a long time resolutely and successfully withstood a detachment of the line, with a couple of nine-pounders from Malegaon and the Bhil Corps under Captain Morris. The fort was not taken till, after a long and obstinate resistance, the outer gate was blown open, the headman Mansaram was shot dead, his son severely wounded and sixteen of the attacking force were killed or wounded.
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